Boise, explained
The Idaho State Museum is the state’s primary history museum, operated by the Idaho State Historical Society and located in Julia Davis Park in downtown Boise. It covers Idaho’s human history from Native settlement and the fur trade through mining, statehood and the 20th century, drawing on state-owned collections, artifacts and changing exhibits rather than … Read more
The Boise Art Museum, usually shortened to BAM, is Idaho’s largest museum devoted to visual art. It sits inside Julia Davis Park near downtown Boise and holds a permanent collection built around American realist painting, a nationally recognized studio ceramics collection, and rotating contemporary exhibitions, alongside a changing schedule of loaned shows. What is the … Read more
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